14 DAY TRIAL // On January 03, Alexandre Julliard announced a new development version of the Wine app, which brings a few new features and a lot of bug fixes.
As usual, the number of new features and bug fixes in the development version of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is quite large, even if we don’t take the important changes into account.
The current Wine feature a couple of new things, such as AVI compressor implementation and threaded local storage support in dynamically loaded libraries. Also, the beginnings of a Task Scheduler implementation have been put in place, and the IPX protocol support has been extended.
Wine 1.7.10 also brings bug fixes for the following Windows games and tools: Dungeon Keeper Gold, Garmin MapSource 6.x, AIM Pro, Jumpstart Mystery Club, The Bat!, Skype, MotorM4X, Blood Bowl Legendary Edition, Google Music Manager, Corel Photo Downloader, Visual C++ 2010, Freemake Video Converter, Anno 1602, Microsoft Office 2013, Volvo The Game, and Torch Browser.
Highlights of Wine 1.7.10:
• The Jumpstart Mystery Club download manager now works correctly; • ActiveX Control Pad installer no longer hangs sometimes on exit; • Jasc Animation Shop 3.05 no longer crashes on startup; • Microsoft Office 2013 full offline installer no longer crashes on startup; • GoldCoin 0.7.1.7 no longer shows assertion on startup (needs ntdll.NtQuerySemaphore implementation); • Visual Studio 2010 installer no longer fails to install in 64-bit Windows XP WINEPREFIX (claims "Windows XP x64 Service Pack 2 is required"); • Multiple applications no longer refuses to load or crash on startup (Nitro PDF Reader 3, Mozilla Firefox); • Mobile Master no longer crashes on startup.
More details about this release can be found in the official changelog. Download Wine 1.7.10 right now from Softpedia.
Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.